Pitton, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Pitton, a chapelry in Parley parish, Wiltshire, 4 miles E by N of Salisbury station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Salisbury; money order office, Winterslow; telegraph office, Winterbourne Gunner. The living is annexed to Parley, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is modern. There is an almshouse hospital.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Wiltshire | |
| Civil parish | Alderbury | |
| Hundred | Alderbury | |
| Poor Law union | Alderbury |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register of Farley All Saints, of which this is a chapelry, dates from the year 1665.
Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for Pitton:
| Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1605-1880 | 1810-1810 | 1669-1837 | 1669-1880 |
Churches
Church of England
St. Peter
The church of St. Peter is a modern building of flint with stone dressings, consisting of chancel, nave, north transept and low belfry (with 3 bells) on the south side, through which is the entrance: it has seats for 150.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Pitton from the following:
Maps
Online maps of Pitton are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Wiltshire papers online: